Time Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

— Bruce Springsteen

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

— Bruce Springsteen

“I wanted to collide with the times and create a voice that had musical, social and cultural impact.”

— Bruce Springsteen

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this…

— Bruce Springsteen

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

— Bruce Springsteen

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

— Bruce Springsteen

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

— Bruce Springsteen

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you…

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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your…

— Bruce Springsteen

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future -…

— Bruce Springsteen

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside…

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I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great.…

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You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not…

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You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet…

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The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

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I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old…

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"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it…

— Bruce Springsteen

At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire…

— Bruce Springsteen

Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,…

— Bruce Springsteen

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself…

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I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But…

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Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And…

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Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to…

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By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at…

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I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as…

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It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

— Bruce Springsteen

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

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Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our…

— Bruce Springsteen

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that…

— Bruce Springsteen

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was…

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I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with…

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When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I…

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The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's…

— Bruce Springsteen

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over…

— Bruce Springsteen

I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was…

— Bruce Springsteen

“A moment comes when you cash in whatever credibility a guy can have who plays and sings rock songs for a living,…

— Bruce Springsteen

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes…

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The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was -…

— Bruce Springsteen